Zero-day broker Zerodium announced that will triples payouts for remote code execution exploits for the popular WordPress content management system. Zero-day broker Zerodium has tripled the payouts for exploits for the WordPress content management system that could be used to achieve remote code execution. Zerodium announced via Twitter that is temporarily offering a $300,000 payout […]
The Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition was concluded, participants earned more than $1.2 million, the greatest total payout ever. The Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition reached the end, participants earned more than $1.2 million which is more than ever paid out at this contest. White hat hackers demonstrated exploits for Safari, Chrome, Edge, Windows 10, Ubuntu, Microsoft […]
Wizcase experts discovered a security flaw in the open-source learning platform Moodle that could allow accounts takeover. At the beginning of October 2020, the Wizcase cyber research team, led by Ata Hakcil, discovered a security vulnerability in the open-source learning platform Moodle. Anyone who had an account on a given school’s Moodle (with TeX filter enabled) could […]
Pwn2Own 2021 – Day 2: a security duo earned $200,000 for a zero-interaction Zoom exploit allowing remote code execution. One of the most interesting working exploits of the second day of the Pwn2Own 2021 was demonstrated by security researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade from Computest. The duo successfully targeted Zoom Messenger in the Enterprise […]
Cisco has addressed a critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the SD-WAN vManage Software. Cisco has addressed multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or by an authenticated, local attacker to gain escalated privileges on vulnerable systems. The most severe vulnerability […]
The maintainers of the PHP programming language confirmed that threat actors may have compromised a user database containing their passwords. The maintainers of the PHP programming language have provided an update regarding the security breach that took place on March 28. Unknown attackers hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed […]
The Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition has begun and white hat hackers participants earned more than $500000 on the first day. The Pwn2Own 2021 has begun, this year the formula for the popular hacking competition sees the distribution of the participants amongst various locations. The competition’s organizer, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), describes this year’s […]
Not only the European Commission, but many other organizations of the European Union have been targeted by a cyberattack in March. A European Commission spokesperson confirmed that the European Commission, along with other European Union organizations, was hit by a cyberattack in March. The authorities did not disclose any details about the type of threats […]
On-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released, security SAP security firm Onapsis warns. According to a joint study published by Onapsis and SAP, on-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released. Threat actors perform reverse-engineering of the SAP […]
China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda, Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing. The threat actors are sending out spear-phishing messages to compromise diplomatic targets in Southeast […]